Successful surgery in a patient with a rupture of descending aorta complicated by acute type A aortic dissection through left-sided thoracotomy

Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 116-117

  Tanaka, Hiroshi ^a,b   Yamashita, Teruo ^a   Okada, Kenji ^a   Okita, Yutaka ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute type A aortic dissection; Descending aortic rupture; Left thoracotomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS; ANGIOGRAPHY; AORTA ARCH; AORTA CLAMPING; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA RUPTURE; AORTA SURGERY; AORTA THROMBOSIS; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; BRAIN PERFUSION; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CASE REPORT; CATHETER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY STENT; DACRON IMPLANT; DESCENDING AORTA; DIAPHRAGM; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMORAL ARTERY; HEART PERFUSION; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LEG DISEASE; MALE; MAMMARY ARTERY; PATIENT REFERRAL; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENAL ARTERY; SKIN INCISION; STENOSIS; SUBCLAVIAN ARTERY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TEMPERATURE; THORACIC AORTA; THORACOTOMY; THORAX PAIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 24744458597     PISSN: 15699293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1510/icvts.2004.100198     Document Type: Article

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